Word Meanings - BECQUERELRAYS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

• FIRSTCLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers wh
• Consistent
  Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
• Frenchify
  To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
• Observational
  Of a pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations.
• Workaday
  See Workyday.
• Workmen
  of Workman
• FIRSTHAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• Consistently
  In a consistent manner.
• Frenchism
  A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
• Observative
  Observing; watchful.
• Workbag
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
• Workman
  A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
• FIRSTRATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).
• Consistorial
  Of or pertaining to a consistory.
• Frenchmen
  of Frenchman
• Observator
  One who observes or takes notice.
• Workbasket
  A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.
• Workmanlike
  Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
• GAMMARAYS
  Very penetrating rays not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances. The prevailing view is that they are non-periodic ether pulses differing from Röntgen rays only in being more penetrating.

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